# Staff Software Engineer

About the company Our client is a fast-growing software company. The role Raydar is recruiting for this role on behalf of our client. Serve as a senior technical leader who guides design decisions and engineering direction for a major part of a software platform. Take on the toughest technical challenges, collaborate with leaders across engineering and product, and help lift the quality bar across several teams. What you'll do - Guide system design and long-term technical strategy for a major platform domain, covering either data-heavy backend infrastructure or AI-driven product work. - Take the lead on the most difficult engineering challenges, weighing build, buy and cost options that affect the wider organization. - Define shared conventions and best practices that help multiple teams deliver better work and help other engineers be more effective. - Work with product and engineering executives so that technical choices support business priorities. - Apply modern AI coding assistants routinely when designing, debugging and delivering solutions. Requirements What we're looking for - 8+ years of professional software engineering experience, with a record of steadily growing scope a

- **Id**: 3579992
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/job/raydar-staff-software-engineer-7>
- **Role**: Backend
- **Role family**: Backend
- **Seniority**: staff
- **Employment type**: full_time
- **Work mode**: hybrid
- **Hiring geo confidence**: structured
- **Locations**: San Francisco, United States
- **Countries**: US
- **Hiring countries total**: 0
- **Visa sponsorship**: no
- **Relocation package**: no
- **Has equity**: no
- **Status**: live
- **First seen at**: 2026-10-01T00:00:00Z
- **Employer posted date**: 2026-10-01
- **Last verified at**: 2026-11-07T14:51:16Z
- **Board verified**: yes
- **Days open**: 37
- **Description format**: text
- **Description chars**: 2077
- **Description truncated**: no
- **Benefits**: Equity, Hybrid work, Professional development
- **Relocation offered**: no

## Company

- **Id**: 4478753
- **Name**: Raydar
- **Domain**: raydar.com
- **Url**: <https://alion.io/company/raydar-com>
- **Size band**: 1001-5000
- **Is staffing agency**: yes
- **Employer type**: agency
- **Is intermediary**: no
- **Ats vendor**: Workable

### Truth index

- **Grade**: B
- **Score**: 80
- **Open postings**: 7
- **Ghost share**: 0
- **Stale share**: 1
- **Repost share**: 0
- **Time to fill p50 days**: 20
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Salary

- **Min**: 217000
- **Max**: 410000
- **Currency**: USD
- **Period**: year
- **Usd annual**: 410000

## Technologies

- **Python** — Optional: no
- **Ruby on Rails** — Optional: no
- **Ruby** — Optional: yes

## Trust

- **Level**: ok
- **Days open**: 37

## Requirements

- **Manages managers**: no
- **Security clearance**: no

## Hiring locations

- **United States** — Iso: US; Kind: country

## Lifecycle

- Event: open; At: 2026-11-01T01:38:31Z

## Visa

- Country: US; Licensed sponsor: no; Adverts offering sponsorship 24m: 33; Sanctioned now: no; Evidence: Offered visa sponsorship in 33 of its adverts here in 24 months; Filings 12m: 0

## Liveness

- **Score**: 20
- **Band**: cold
- **Label**: Long shot
- **P open**: 1
- **P active**: 0.443
- **P room**: 0.45
- **Age days**: 37
- **Expected fill days**: 20
- **Reasons**: conf:2, agency, velocity, win:tail, comp:brand
- **Computed at**: 2026-11-07T05:47:08Z

## Pay

- **Stated usd annual**: 410000
- **Is top pay**: yes

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